Wide Screen distortion

[Greg Booth]

On 8/7/07, Brendan <mailinglist at endosquid.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday 07 August 2007, Tim Johnson wrote:
> > On Tuesday 07 August 2007, Tim Johnson wrote:
> > > Hi:
> > > I have acquired a new widescreen monitor. Nice to have all the
> > > viewing "real estate", but things a now a bit "stretched horizontally".
> > > Is there any adjustments to be done from X or KDE?
> > > Notes:
> > > kubuntu 7.04 amd64, KDE 3.5.6. Acer X221W monitor.
> >
> >   Addendum: Resolution is set at 1680X1050, default depth=24
> >                    xorg.conf
>
> same monitor and resolution here...
> Everything looks dandy.

Is it just your wallpaper ? If you're wallpaper is set to "scaled"
then it's gonna stretch it. Go out to kde-look.org and get some
wallpapers that are the right size for your monitor :)

Greg